I dont know! ive been waiting all day. the contest site said they would be posted saturday night, wetpixel says by tonight, but its already 10:15PM. I knew i should have gone to Chicago. AARGGGGHHHHH! It's driving me nuts <--- (also what the pirate who had a steering wheel lodged in his pants said)

After the totally Nikon winners circle in last year's Wetpixel Int Comp, it is good to see a couple of Canon 1DS Mk2 shots in there and an Olympus in the DSLRs! You can have a scroll through the winners gallery here:http://www.underwate...jose-2-bos.html

Yes, so was my previous (compact) camera. I was happily pleased to see that i was also in the list with a cold water picture from my home diving area: The Oosterschelde estuary... Nevertheless i turned into a Nikonian about a year ago, what probably wouldn't have happened when Tokina came out with their 10-17 mm FE one year earlier... Anyway, im sooooooooo happy that i won a prize in an international competion!!! joohoo!!!!

After the totally Nikon winners circle in last year's Wetpixel Int Comp, it is good to see a couple of Canon 1DS Mk2 shots in there and an Olympus in the DSLRs! You can have a scroll through the winners gallery here:http://www.underwate...jose-2-bos.html

Canon cameras did dominate the compact competition, though.

Alex

While it's interesting that you pick up on the cameras used, what really jumped out at me in terms of the DEEP Indonesia contest results, was that WA dominated and Macro stuff didn't seem to be well represented among the winners. There were a couple of obvious WA categories such as "Reefscapes" and "Divers", (not even a macro category it seems) but even in more general categories such as "animal portraits" and the presumably wide-open "Indonesia" category, WA dominated. Is macro dead? Cheers.Michael.

Congrats to the winners. Obviously the bar is set very high for this competition and a high degree of creativity set the winners above the pack.

One thing I would change about this competition is the categories. The traditional category seems too restrictive to me. Even if a miniscule amount of backscatter removal is done to an image it must then be lumped into the unrestricted category where anything go's.

Regarding macro/WA tendencies:
Could it be that we "have seen it all" in macro and people like to see new angles and compositions in WA?
Personally I enjoy to make both kind of images, but I find it more chanllenging and rewarding to get a special WA photo that really places the viewer in the scene.